As you may have noticed, today marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of Nintendo GameCube in Japan and we (along with the rest of the internet) have been nostalgic for Nintendo’s purple box.
As is customary on these significant anniversaries (or any anniversary as far as social media is concerned, those 17th and 36th anniversaries should also be marked), the verses Twitterverse and Facebookverse and other various dystopians have been celebrating with good reason, with the trend of Gamecube in gamers “I think in a way that Nintendo wishes it could be two decades back.
With everyone sharing their favorite GameCube games and memories, a Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox, revealed his favorite GameCube game on Twitter. No, it’s not Mario, it’s not Pikmin, it’s not F-Zero, it’s not even Billy Hatcher. Is …
Yes, it is the psychological horror of Silicon Knights Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, a game that remains exclusive to GameCube to this day and occupies number 12 on our list of Top 50 GameCube games ranked by readers in the time to write. It’s a classic horror title full of Lovecraftian-style tradition and Old God’s gore, and perhaps remembered for its superbly effective “common sense effects,” where the game would break the fourth wall to envelop the player’s mind.
Is it a signal? Does that mean Phil is working with Nintendo to get the series back somehow? Microsoft buys Nintendo?!?! …
Er, no, no and no. Please check your common sense meter.
Anyway, nice Phil, it’s a quality video game released for Nintendo GameCube, and we approve of your good taste, sir.
Feel free to let us know below which GameCube game you think Jim Ryan would call his favorite. We’ll say it’s probably … oh, a FIFA or something.